JANIE DEE - Valerie

West End Theatre credits include, Annie in Calendar Girls (Noel Coward Theatre), Susan in Woman in Mind (Stephen Joseph Theatre and Vaudeville Theatre), Joy Gresham in Shadowlands (Wyndhams Theatre and national tour), Lady Driver in Donkey’s Years (Comedy Theatre), Suki in Celebration (Gate Theatre Dublin and Albery Theatre), Emma in Betrayal (Duchess Theatre, Bath Festival and Oxford), Jacie in Comic Potential (Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC, Lyric Theatre, and Stephen Joseph Theatre. Olivier, London Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Actress).

Other Theatre credits include, Susan in The Little Hut (UK tour) Orinthia in The Apple Cart and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal Bath) Olivia in Twelfth Night and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park) Kate in Old Times (national tour), Kate in Old Times (Gate Theatre Dublin), Gilda inDesign for Living (Bath Festival and UK tour), Joanna Mace in House and Garden, Kathleen in Figuring Things and Steph in Bolt From the Blue (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Helen of Troy in Women of Troy and Julie Glynn in Johnny On a Spot (National Theatre), Marie Wesener inThe Soldiers (National Theatre Studio), Alice in You Can’t Take It With You (King’s Head Theatre).

Musical Theatre includes Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel (Criterion Theatre, and tour), Fay in Anyone Can Whistle (Bridewell), one woman show Diva at the Donmar and The Actress in Enter the Guardsman (Donmar Warehouse), Lydochka in Paradise Moscow(Opera North), Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel (National Theatre. Olivier Musical Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress), Nelly Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music (Sheffield Crucible), Michelle in Love Songs for Shopkeepers, Sonia in They’re Playing Our Song and Amanda in Dreams From a Summer House (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), Shakespeare Revue (RSC The Pit and Vaudeville), Sandy in A Connecticut Yankee (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Jenny in Between the Lines (Etcetera Theatre), Sophisticated Ladies (Gielgud Theatre and national tour), Ellie May Chipley in Showboat (London Palladium and national tour), Bombalurina in Cats (New London Theatre, West End), Claudine inCan Can (Strand Theatre), Ado Annie in Oklahoma! (national tour),Cabaret (Strand Theatre).

Workshops include Mercury Workshop (Jermyn Street Theatre), Peter Brook Workshop, Twelfth Night and one-woman show ID (NT Studio).

Television includes Harold Pinter: A Celebration, The Murder Room, Death in Holy Orders, Midsomer Murders, House of Cards, The Live Show, Heartbeat, Little White Lies, London’s Burning, Spy Watch, The Bill, Love Hurts.

Films include Me and Orson Welles, Celebration, Virtuoso.

Radio and recordings include Doctor No, Forever, The Vicissitudes of Evangeline, Under the Net, The Gay Divorce, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Salad Days, Bob Holness Requests the Pleasure, Shakespeare Revue, Can Can, Cabaret.

REECE NOI - Andrew

Television credits include: Aaron in Switch (ITV2, Touchpaper), Levi inHit N Miss (Abbotvision/SkyAtlantic), Frank Goff in Scott And Bailey (Red Productions), Wayne Barton in Grounded For Life (BBC), Jaffers inBrightside (BBC), Mark Draper in Silk (BBC), Sean O'Connor in Father And Son (Leftbank/ITV), Tyler Simmons in The Bill (Talkback Thames), Earl Kelly in Waterloo Road (Shed Productions/BBC), Ryan Hayworth inEmmerdale (Yorkshire Television), Dean Bennett in Dalziel and Pascoe(BBC Productions), Sam Davies in Doctors (BBC), Marlon Miller in Casualty(BBC Bristol), Luke Newman in Shameless (Company Productions Limited) and Taylor Mitchell in Grange Hill (Mersey TV/BBC).

Film credits include: Kieran in Seamonsters (Orange Trousers, Julian Kerridge), Aiden in Friday (Academy Films, Sebastian Edwards), Shoulderboy in Four Lions (Warp Films, Chris Morris), Liam in Threads(Picture Palace North/Screen Yorkshire, Maat Taabu), Wesley Churchill inThe Virgin Of Liverpool (Mob Film Company, Lee Donaldson) and The Boy in My Kingdom (My Kingdom Productions, Don Boyd). 

SAM PETER JACKSON - Director and Writer

As a playwright, Sam Peter Jackson is best known for writing 'Public Property', which ran at the Trafalgar Studios in London’s West End and starred Nigel Harman and Robert Daws. The piece was very well reviewed and nominated for a WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Comedy. His first short film 'Charity' - which he also wrote and co-directed - recently won Best Comedy at the Crystal Palace Short Film Festival.

CHRIS CLOR - Director of Photography

The Director of Photography is Chris Clor - a talented and experienced photographer who has a highly impressive body of work. As a commercial cinematographer he has worked for major clients such as Ford and Gillette.

LOUISE E HOLLAMBY - Producer

Producer Louise E Hollamby founded Scorched Spoon Productions Ltd., an independent British production company, with her brother Alexander Hollamby in June 2011. They believe that the quality of a film starts and ends with a great story. In addition to producing The Bathroom they are currently working on active development for a feature film, Loss And Found - to be directed by acclaimed West End and Off-Broadway director Hanna Berrigan.

In this - as with all of their work - they want to utilise the very best of home grown talent and showcase it to a worldwide audience. Through partnership with industry contacts, local businesses and product placement deals with quality British brands, they strive to make films which satisfy their twin aims of artistic integrity and commercial success.

DAVID ARNOLD - Composer

David Arnold is an English film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, the 1994 film Stargate, the 1996 film Independence Day, the 1998 film Godzilla and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock.

PETER HEIN - Editor

Peter Hein trained at the European Film College and has worked extensively as an Editor in his home country of Denmark before moving to London. Since then, he has worked on a freelance basis for, amongst others, Shine TV, Channel 4, Sky TV and the BBC. His most recent work for Sky was nominated for a 2012 Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award.

STEFANO MARRONE - Storyboard Artist

Talented artist and animator, Stefano Marrone, has provided us with our artwork and shooting board. After attending NABA in Milan, graduating with a BA in Media Design and Multimedia Arts, he worked as an event photographer, motion graphics artist and video editor for various advertising and event agencies. He graduated from the Classical Animation course at Vancouver Film School and continues to work within the motion graphics, visual development and animation field while attending Goldsmiths MA in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship in London.

MARCH 2013

OLIVIER NOD FOR JANIE DEE!
Massive congratulations to our leading lady, Janie Dee, for her Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for 'NSFW' at the Royal Court. We're clearly biased but think she obviously deserves to win! It has been a joy to work with one of the most talented actresses of her generation. Go Janie!

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
We did it! We successfully shot our film over three days from 13th to 15th March at our incredible location in Hackney. Thanks to our amazing cast - completed by the wonderful Nigel Hastings - and the hardest working crew in town! It was a joy and we cannot wait to hand the film over to our talented editor, Peter Hein, to work his magic over at Princess Productions.

CAST CONFIRMED

SSP are thrilled to announce the Olivier Award winning actress Janie Dee will be playing the lead role of Valerie. She is joined by a wonderful young actor, Reece Noi, for the role of Andrew. Further details can be found on the cast page and we could not be happier to have them on board. 

SHOOTING DATES CONFIRMED
We are thrilled to confirm that shooting will take place between 13th to 15th March at our fantastic location in Hackney. 

FEBRUARY 2013

SHOOTING BOARD

Our massively talented Artistic Director, Stefano Marrone is just putting the finishing touches to our shooting board. Please contact him via his website if you want to see more of his work and we look forward to showing you more of his brilliant work for The Bathroom very soon.

RUNNER ABOARD!

We are delighted to welcome talented film student Tom Walder on board as a runner and assistant to director, Sam Peter Jackson. Hurrah!

THE BATHROOM ON TWITTER

Our production is now on Twitter. Find us at @thebathroom2013 for regular updates and production announcements.

JANUARY 2013

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION...

We are pleased to confirm that we have secured our location for The Bathroom. We will be shooting in a private location in Hackney over three days. The shoot is provisionally booked for late February 2013, subject to cast and crew availability.

CREATIVE TEAM ANNOUNCED

Scorched Spoon Productions Ltd. is pleased to announce its creative team for the short film The Bathroom:

DIRECTOR - Sam Peter Jackson

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - Chris Clor

COMPOSER - David Arnold

EDITOR - Peter Hein

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - Stefano Marrone

PRODUCER - Louise E Hollamby

For more information please click here.

THE BATHROOM - A SHORT FILM

Scorched Spoon Productions Ltd. is pleased to announce that it is developing a short film by acclaimed playwright Sam Peter Jackson for production and completion in Spring 2013.

Scorched Spoon Productions Ltd. is an independent British production company run by sister and brother team Louise E Hollamby and Alexander Hollamby. We believe that the quality of a film starts and ends with a great story and are making our debut feature film, LOSS AND FOUND, because it possesses exactly that.

This is a highly personal film, set in Lincoln - close to the area in which we grew up - which gives us the chance to give something back to a community that has faced challenging economic and social conditions over recent years.

In this - as with all of our work - we want to utilise the very best of home grown talent and showcase it to a worldwide audience. Through partnership with the University of Lincoln, local businesses and product placement deals with quality British brands, we can combine to make LOSS AND FOUND a film which satisfies twin aims of artistic integrity and commercial success. 

Brilliant West End and Off-Broadway director, HANNA BERRGIAN, will be making her film debut as our director and we are currently in the process of finalising the financing and development of the project.  

We have just completed post-production for our first short film, THE BATHROOM - written and directed by talented playwright SAM PETER JACKSON and starring Olivier winning actress JANIE DEE and brilliant young actor REECE NOI. We have been lucky enough to have Grammy winning composer DAVID ARNOLD provide us with the score for this ten minute short and are excited about embarking on the festival trail with it shortly. 

Our current slate also includes GENDER REASSIGNMENT - an ambitious short film by writer/director ADINA ISTRATE about a complicated love story between a wrestler and a pre-op transsexual and the development of a television project written by PETER WISE with JULIAN RHIND-TUTT and JANIE DEE attached to star.  

We have a core team of hard working and talented collaborators, without whom we could not get any of this done, and we look forward to showing the world how phenomenal they all are. At least that's what they told us to say...